James Benning’s landscape film TEN SKIES (2004) becomes an ecstatic launchpad to survey artistic representations of the sky. Looking up, Erika Balsom’s lyrical and idiosyncratic text drifts through the skyscape of historical and contemporary filmmaking, approaching the sky as an archive that offers tantalising clues to the shifting relations between nature and people, clouds and earth.

144 pages, 10.5 x 15 cm, paperback, Fireflies Press (Melbourne / Berlin).